Mountain West Wire

Jeremy and Matt are joined freelance journalist Marc Delucchi who wrote an excellent piece at SFGate.com regarding Hawaii football and some of the internal issues that players are having with head coach Todd Graham.

The situation is not good as many players are in the transfer portal which includes multiple starters such as QB Chevan Cordeiro and RB Dae Dae Hunter. There is a strife between players and Graham in how he treats certain players on this team which is not good, and it has caused some players to just give up football due to his actions. Yet, the response from Graham and even some local media is not reassuring that change will happen.

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Jeremy and Josh are back again to discuss Colorado State's ruthless hire of bringing in Jay Norvell to be its next head coach. Norvell was previously Nevada's head coach and this is the first time in the Mountain West that a head coach has taken the same job within the league.

Resources are a big reason why this move was made as Norvell was making $625,000 per which ranked near the very bottom of the Mountain West coaches. Colorado State pays a lot more and will give him over a million dollars per year.

There is also the commitment to football that seemingly is higher up on the priority at Colorado State than Nevada.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to recap the unexpected result of the 2021 Mountain West football title game which saw Utah State win 46-13 over San Diego State. There is a lot that went on in that game including San Diego State having 20 players -- majority reserves -- out due to COVID-19 and/or contact tracing. The Aggies played arguably their best game and the Aztecs did not which led to the blowout result.

Everything basically went right for Utah State and their gameplan and specifically on offense going downfield in the passing game. The Aztecs uncharacteristically had special teams issues.

They also give a first look at the eight Mountain West bowl games.

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Jeremy and Josh take a look at Colorado State who fired Steve Addazio after a 4-12 record in just two seasons. The two go over the coaching candidates, what went right and what went wrong. There is a list of 27 candidates but we don't get into them all because there are a few off-the-wall ones.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the 2021 Mountain West football championship game between Utah State and San Diego State. They go through key players, under the radar players, injury updates, covid issues and what side of the ball really has an edge.

Also, they wrap with their predictions of who will win.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to talk about the craziness that is the first few days of the "offseason" in college football. Fresno State's Kalen DeBoer is off to Washington as very well could be QB Jake Haener. The portal in general is on fire with a lot of movement already happening. One of the biggest news items was that Hawaii players hosted a Twitter Spaces and basically called out the program and specifically head coach Todd Graham. We only listened to snippets so there is a lot we missed but safe to say, players aren't happy.

We also discussed Colorado State's Steve Addazio but he has since been reportedly let go hours after this recording.

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Jeremy goes solo to recap the Week 13 of Mountain West play that had a lot of blowouts and the end result for the championship game is San Diego State hosting Utah State on Saturday afternoon.

The biggest story of the weekend was Colorado State's Steve Addazio getting ejected in the first half of a blowout loss against Nevada. This brings up a lot more questions about if Addazio should remain as the Rams head coach.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the final full week of Mountain Wet football as we approach Week 13.

Games are spread out with Fresno State and San Jose State and Thanksgiving Day for the battle for the Valley Trophy. Friday has a triple header with Boise State traveling to San Diego State for a 9 a.m. local kick time in Carson, California, in what is the featured matchup of the day.

Utah State travels to New Mexico and an Aggies win will go a long way for them to win the Mountain Division. Air Force and UNLV has the chance to be interesting as the Rebels have been improving.

The Saturday games include Hawaii and Wyoming battling for the Paniolo Trophy, and the night game is Nevada at Colorado State.

Nearly every game is important and has a hand to play in the Mountain West championship game for who will represent each division.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to recap the 12th week of Mountain West football which had quite a few interesting games. UNLV had ample opportunities to upset a ranked San Diego State team but could not get over the hump, but safe to say about the Rebels is that they are. on the up and up.

Air Force and Nevada had an epic comeback that went the Falcons way in overtime and eliminated the Wolf Plack from winning the West division.

Boise State just demolished a young New Mexico team with no quarterback. Then there was the shootout in Hawaii with the Warriors holding off Colorado State, 50-45.

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Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the five conference games this week in Mountain West play and it all gets started on Friday night with an interesting Air Force vs. Nevada game. The loser is all but out of their respective division race as each have two losses. This is a game where the Wolf Pack must figure out how to stop the Falcons ground attack if they are going to win.

UNLV hosts San Diego State in a rare 8:30 p.m. PT kick off and this one likely will not be close. The same can be said for Boise State vs. New Mexico. The Lobos are still without quarterback Terry Wilson and that will cause some issues. Hawaii hosts Colorado State in an interesting game on the islands that could get weird.

Wyoming vs. Utah State has the potential to get out of hand if the Aggies offense continues to play like it has the past few weeks. The Cowboys defense is good but it will need to be really good to keep pace with the Aggies.

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